07/17/06 08:30 - ID#25001

Ruined

I just ruined a load of laundry - an entire load of whites, including one of my favorite shirts of J's, white sheets, and some of my new white dinner napkins. I've read that it's possible to rescue some types of fabric from the inky mess I've made, but generally not if it's cotton (yep) or if it's been set in the dryer (yep, again).
A question for the (e:peeps) - what's the worst laundry experience you've ever had? Mine just happened tonight . . .
And what made it even worse was having my dear J show me, again, the wife school clip

chico writes at 08:45:12 07/18/06 - Comment #10046: ladycroft, thanks for reminding me -- I washed a load of clothes with a Chapstick in the pocket of a jacket and ruined a bunch of things, too -- damn, had forgot about that. Nasty stuff, Chapstick.

ladycroft writes at 10:30:07 07/18/06 - Comment #10030: i washed a tube of hemp chapstick (and dried) which left oil stains on all my clothes. couldn't get it out. boo.

kara writes at 08:25:04 07/18/06 - Comment #10029: Thanks to overstock.com, a new set of sheets is on the way. I made a valiant attempt to use nail polish remover on a rather large spot on a shirt, but it ended with me having made an even bigger mess of the shirt, ink on the sink, and blue fingers.
Maybe the moral of the story is that I shouldn't ever spend more than $5 on a piece of clothing; that way, if I stain and/or rip it, I don't feel so darn bad.

carolinian writes at 05:18:32 07/18/06 - Comment #10022: My worst laundry experience was when I went to the beach with my father and he put a load of dishes into the dishwasher. The reason this qualifies as a "laundry experience" is because he mistook a jar of white powder the timeshare's owner had placed under the sink for dishwasher detergent, when in fact it was powdered laundry detergent.

We were up until 3AM cleaning up the remnants of the unintentional "foam party" in the condo's kitchen that resulted from my dad's attempt to launder dishes.

jenks writes at 11:07:09 07/17/06 - Comment #10020: if it's really just solid white, and already ruined (i.e. you can't make it worse)- it's worth a try to just bleach the hell out of it... like qtip straight bleach onto a spot and see if it does anything... That sucks though. :( sorry to hear it.

mrdt writes at 10:43:50 07/17/06 - Comment #10016: My worst laundry expirience - well, this is kind of gross.

One Saturday morning, after working the night before, I was washing my chef pants, work unders and t-shirts when I noticed a pair of my girlfriends black panties from the same night on the floor. Trying to figure out why they were down there, I gave them a good look and saw a very nasty white stain in the crotch.

I don't know what the fuck it was but I always had the feeling that this insecure girl was cheating on me.

Needless to say a few months later the girl left me for someone else. But thanks for reminding me of that. There's nothing like the feeling of being told I love you by someone who's been around the entire neighborhood.

chico writes at 08:49:27 07/17/06 - Comment #10014: Oh Kara, so sorry to hear about the laundry disaster. Did you pick up some of that dye remover stuff, just to give it a try? "Ritt" or something like that...

For the record, I once left a very nice wristwatch in my pants pocket and not only washed it but threw it in the dryer as well. To say that it was pulverized would be putting it lightly.

Also, I once shrank one of (e:chicoschica)'s favorite wool sweaters down to Cabbage Patch Kid size.

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